The Dillon tribune., 1887-06-10
McNUTT'S PLACER MINES.
Description of u Valuable Idaho Mining
Property.


Property.
\ correspondent of the Salt Lake Ii1b-
mxr writing from Moose Creek, Idaho,
gives an interesting description Of NC.
Nuts placer mining property, from which
we make extracts After having spent
the most ot my life in the mines OF Califor
MIA, Nevada and surrounding Territories,
have never seen anything that can or will
hold candle to the way mining is carried
on here, on a creek we'll up in the noun
tains. Up there is a creek which runs
through flat or basin having dip ar fall
OF about seventy feet to the mile, the fiat
being from one fourth to cne-haif mile wide,
and as level as the grass lands in Kansas
or Iowa. The soil is rich loan from two
to tour fee. deep. Undevyin this loan is
a rich bed of gold bearing gravel from
twelve to fourteen feet thick. The upper
half carries but little gold, in fine co|ors,
and is loose and is easily washed down.
The lower half of this gravel is close and
tight and has fine gold all through
it, while closer to the bed rock
il is 50 itch in gold as sometimes TO
Weld a. much as half dollar to the PAM
bu, iron. four to five cents is more com
mon. 1t is impossible to take a pan OF dirt
anywhere and not find gold in it. y cut
! has been made in ahead OF the upper
end or bed rock Hume about I,hoo feet,
opering up the ground read. for washing
each side into this cut. at this point two
pipes come in, or rather one pipe which is
then divided into two so as to give two
points from which they operate. n gate at
the fork OF the pipe, enables the changing
from one giant to the other easily. These
streams operate at points 200 feet apart and
so situated as to operate on the banks, and
for washing down to the best advantage
The giants wash the earth, or gravel, into
this center cut and down to and through the
long bed rock t|ume, while the gold i:
caught in the bottom OF the flume. Th.
lower end Of this bed rock tumc discharge:
into deep cut made through ridge o
reef, then down into gulch at right an
giles to where the creek formerly flowed
The sulch gives dumping ground ST
deer and extensive as to last for all time
in TACT, it is the greatest dumping place tn
writer has ever seen in placer mining. |
will be seen that the ground blocked ou
for this season, 600 feet long and 200 fee
wide and rod in depth covers an i'll,
mense mass of gravel, being now washe
down stream. 1t aggregates about seve
and one.half acres, from which the tortur
ate owner expects to clean up fully $lot
600 at the end Of the season. One OF tn
best features Of this big property is, tha
about a., hc takes out is clear gain, is
costs but tritle to operate the giants, tur
on the sl,ice, do the cleaning up at the en-
of the season, and convert the gold in,
bankable paper. \ little labor and sagacio,
brain work in the past in opening up tt
. property, and little cheap labor, const
T. tute the items Of expense in mining, viii
nature does the rest, as it has been doir
for Mr.. McNutt for several years. But
10NSt be remembered tUNI w IuS ~"
DAYS Of this property it cost McNntt muc
g money to properly open it up. lie did NJ
y spare any expense in any particular
& making these diggings just what the
ought to be for the most economical ma
n ner Of working, and for saving the gold
X the fullest extent. When he began pu
* ting in these Improvements he saw mi
ID lions in the ground, and now after he h
A. taken his hundreds Of thousands iro
d there and has made only small hole
ut the property, so great in extent as it is Il
ID only thing that now seems to harass hi
III is that he cannot live to work these place
y. out, and the man is not now alive vi
H. will see the day that these mines Will
ID exhausted Of their gold.
re
n, Sentenced to Death.
(Special Correspondcnce.]